Green Wing: POINT (I am expecting a counter-point to come along from about everyone else). I like Green Wing. I admit, it did not leap on me instantly. The sped up, slowed down, trip-hop stylings which will be the meat and potatoes of any criticism o[…]

Double-barrelled syringe injects new hope into lame doctors comedies: able to do “a couple of pricks jokes now too”.[…]

TV Highlights (sort of) of the Wimbledon vs Liverpool match I mentioned here.[…]

I became a fish eater last April, when I visited an old friend in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We were at the pub, and I was through with eating gobs of hummus and fafel to satiate my titanic vegetarian hunger. So I had some fish and chips. No great revelat[…]

“badgers couldn’t compensate at twice the price“!!
(for the benefit of the non-aged this is a roxy music reference)[…]

Lore! That new Robbie Williams single may be the worst thing he’s ever released…
but combined with the new Beastie Boys single ‘Triple Trouble’ it has prompted me to think about the pros and cons of putting on a silly accent i[…]

Oh NO!: thread bemoaning the apparently imminent floppage of “Chewing Gum” by Annie. I agree that it’s the lack of airplay and supermarket stockage that’s done for the song. I can understand why Radio 1 and Asda have stayed aw[…]

FT Top 100 Films
30: BANANAS
There are people who say that they only like Woody Allen’s early funny movies. Good luck to them i say, though I sometimes goggle when taht actually means anything before Love And Death. For such people Bananas is t[…]

Some writers deploy an unanswerable style. Perry Anderson is one such: to read is to defer. Most of the time, anyway — but when the reader finds himself with the advantage, as I fear is the case here, the danger is that the whole edifice of aut[…]

Gronk board
Another story on the theme of strangers in travel pictures.
Once when I was a teenager, I was in the Navy cadets. We went on a 3-day trip staying on a minesweeper.
The minesweeper was dirty and gray coloured and smelt like a hospital. I[…]